Wealth Management

Investment Banking & Capital Markets

Corporations, organizations, and governments around the world rely on Morgan Stanley’s reputation as a global leader in investment banking. Our advisory and capital-raising services are recognized as among the best in the industry.

Sales & Trading

Global institutions. Cutting-edge hedge funds. Industry innovators—all turn to Morgan Stanley for sales, trading and market-making services, as we work to find new forms of investment to generate superior returns.

Cash Equities

Morgan Stanley is a global leader in executing transactions in cash equity and equity-related products for institutional clients around the world. These products include common stocks, global depository receipts and exchange-traded funds.

Prime Brokerage

For more than 25 years, Morgan Stanley has led the industry and set the standard for excellence in prime brokerage. Our broad and deep client relationships, market-leading platform and intellectual insights enable us to be a world-class service provider to our clients for their financing, market access and portfolio management needs.

Commodities

Morgan Stanley is a market leader in energy and metals trading worldwide. Commodities professionals trade actual physical commodities as well as associated derivatives and futures. With its active presence in these markets, Morgan Stanley offers clients the ability to take advantage of market opportunities as well as manage the price risk inherent in their businesses.

Macro Products

Morgan Stanley is a global dealer in interest rate and currency products, including interest rate cash and derivatives providing primary and secondary liquidity, foreign exchange options for institutions and family offices, and the development of sophisticated investment and trading strategies for emerging-markets sovereign countries.

Global Credit Products

Morgan Stanley trades all fixed-income assets with embedded credit in a variety of areas, from municipal securities, to investment-grade and high-yield bond and credit derivatives trading. In addition, Morgan Stanley structures, underwrites and trades the full range of collateralized securities, including those backed by residential and commercial mortgages, in both the cash and derivatives markets.

Distribution

Our global sales function connects Morgan Stanley’s resources with our institutional clients, such as banks, insurance companies, hedge funds, money managers, pension funds and mutual funds. Sales executives help institutional clients to achieve their particular investment objectives, providing them not only with product expertise but also with access to all areas of the firm.

Active Fundamental Equity

1 Source: Barron's “Top 100 Financial Advisors,” April 17, 2017. Barron's “Top 100 Financial Advisors” bases its ratings on qualitative criteria: professionals with a minimum of seven years of financial services experience, acceptable compliance records, client retention reports, customer satisfaction, and more. Financial Advisors are quantitatively rated based on varying types of revenues and assets advised by the financial professional, with weightings associated for each. Because individual client portfolio performance varies and is typically unaudited, this rating focuses on customer satisfaction and quality of advice. The rating may not be representative of any one client’s experience because it reflects a sample of all of the experiences of the Financial Advisor’s clients. The rating is not indicative of the Financial Advisor’s future performance. Neither Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC nor its Financial Advisors or Private Wealth Advisors pays a fee to Barron's in exchange for the rating. Barron's is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, L.P. All rights reserved.